Some scripture quotes on Harvest/Hunger:
Sirach 6:18-20
My child, from your youth choose discipline,
and when you have gray hair you will still find wisdom.
Come to her like one who plows and sows,
and wait for her good harvest.
For when you cultivate her you will toil but little,
and soon you will eat of her produce.
She seems very harsh to the undisciplined;
fools cannot remain with her.
Nehemiah 9:15
For their hunger you gave them bread from heaven, and for their thirst you brought water for them out of the rock, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you swore to give them.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Luke 10:2
He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
2 Corinthians 9:10
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
James 3:18
And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace
Some notes to begin discussion:
I don’t have too much difficulty seeing us a both the ones harvesting AND as those being harvested ourselves – God has planted good seed in the world, and if we are trying to be the product of good seed, then we are going to be part of what God harvests - the living Kingdom of God, while at the same time being called to help with harvesting – gathering in – others.
And I can see us being hungry and being driven by our hunger to seek for God - we hunger and thirst for righteousness – but it is much stranger to envision myself as HUNGER – and I’m not sure where I go with this concept.
‘Hungry’ is an adjective. I’m OK with that. And ‘hunger’ as an active verb “I hunger” - I’m goon with that, too. But ‘hunger’ as a noun - which is what the song is saying -- “we are hunger” - that one puzzles me.
Unless it is that I become so deeply involved in being hungry for God and God’s righteousness that I become, in effect, hunger itself walking in the world, seeking – and working for – the reign of God – the full expression of the justice and righteousness of God’s kingdom.
I don’t have too much difficulty seeing us a both the ones harvesting AND as those being harvested ourselves – God has planted good seed in the world, and if we are trying to be the product of good seed, then we are going to be part of what God harvests - the living Kingdom of God, while at the same time being called to help with harvesting – gathering in – others.
And I can see us being hungry and being driven by our hunger to seek for God - we hunger and thirst for righteousness – but it is much stranger to envision myself as HUNGER – and I’m not sure where I go with this concept.
‘Hungry’ is an adjective. I’m OK with that. And ‘hunger’ as an active verb “I hunger” - I’m goon with that, too. But ‘hunger’ as a noun - which is what the song is saying -- “we are hunger” - that one puzzles me.
Unless it is that I become so deeply involved in being hungry for God and God’s righteousness that I become, in effect, hunger itself walking in the world, seeking – and working for – the reign of God – the full expression of the justice and righteousness of God’s kingdom.
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” ~~ Frederick Buechner
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